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Twitter has proven time and again that it is no friend of an open and uncensored platform.

• saimiam 5y ago
  Any company is expected to operate under the laws of the land it does business in. Twitter is not the culprit here.
  • mindslight 5y ago
    Companies shouldn't be middlemen in the position to control speech in the first place. The entire webapp ecosystem is an attractive nuisance designed to disempower users in favor of extracting ongoing rent.
  • ALittleLight 5y ago
    Yes they are. Twitter is the culprit to the extent that they don't value free expression. If they valued it in the way it is meant in the US then they would allow their users to criticize their government. If the government says that's illegal then Twitter should not do business there. Obviously, for Twitter, it's a business decision. They don't care about free expression and do care about making money, so they censor Indians (and others) and comply with censorious regimes. It may not have been Twitter's idea to censor. Left to their own devices they might prefer to censor nothing. However, it is certainly Twitter's action to censor people and they are fully culpable for that.